Touching the Void
starring: Simon Yates, Joe Simpson, Brendan Mackey, Nicholas Aaron, Richard Hawking
directed by: Kevin Macdonald
directed by: Kevin Macdonald
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After scaling the never-before-climbed 21000 foot siula grande mountain climbers joe simpson & simon yates face their greatest challenge yet getting back down. But when simpson shatters his leg in a fall & the friends are separated their journeys become an inspiring voyage.Studio: Tcfhe/mgmRelease Date: 02/13/2007Run time: 107 minutesRating: R
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To describe Touching the Void as a mountaineering documentary would be to do this breathtaking drama an injustice. By intercutting narration from the climbers themselves with a nail-biting reconstruction of their remarkable adventure in the Peruvian Andes, the film has the best of both genres: the authentic stamp of factual storytelling and the edge-of-the-seat tension of a dramatic movie.
In 1985, two British mountaineers, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, embarked on a daring--arguably reckless in the extreme--attempt to climb the previously unconquered mountain Siula Grande. A mixture of overconfidence in their own abilities and underestimation of the climb's difficulties brought them to grief after the successful slog to the summit. What follows is an often harrowing account of their perilous descent.
Based on Joe Simpson's gripping book, the film boasts glorious widescreen photography of Siula Grande and its notorious glacier. Actors take the place of the two climbers for close-ups, though Simpson did return to Peru in order to reenact parts of his dreadful crawl back down the ice. The story of Simpson's almost-superhuman fortitude has become legendary in climbing circles, and even for viewers uninterested in mountaineering, Touching the Void is an astonishing slice of real-life drama, magnificently retold. --Mark Walker
After scaling the never-before-climbed 21000 foot siula grande mountain climbers joe simpson & simon yates face their greatest challenge yet getting back down. But when simpson shatters his leg in a fall & the friends are separated their journeys become an inspiring voyage.Studio: Tcfhe/mgmRelease Date: 02/13/2007Run time: 107 minutesRating: R
Amazon.com:
To describe Touching the Void as a mountaineering documentary would be to do this breathtaking drama an injustice. By intercutting narration from the climbers themselves with a nail-biting reconstruction of their remarkable adventure in the Peruvian Andes, the film has the best of both genres: the authentic stamp of factual storytelling and the edge-of-the-seat tension of a dramatic movie.
In 1985, two British mountaineers, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, embarked on a daring--arguably reckless in the extreme--attempt to climb the previously unconquered mountain Siula Grande. A mixture of overconfidence in their own abilities and underestimation of the climb's difficulties brought them to grief after the successful slog to the summit. What follows is an often harrowing account of their perilous descent.
Based on Joe Simpson's gripping book, the film boasts glorious widescreen photography of Siula Grande and its notorious glacier. Actors take the place of the two climbers for close-ups, though Simpson did return to Peru in order to reenact parts of his dreadful crawl back down the ice. The story of Simpson's almost-superhuman fortitude has become legendary in climbing circles, and even for viewers uninterested in mountaineering, Touching the Void is an astonishing slice of real-life drama, magnificently retold. --Mark Walker
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: 
- Absolutely riveting - and much, much more than I expected
Having a very small amount of climbing experience myself, I vividly remember hearing this story, and all of the criticism that poor Simon faced, back when this actually happened, but I only recently saw the movie - and I am oh so glad I did.
Even if you are not at all interested in climbing, this is simply one of the most riveting stories ever told and one of my favorite movies ever.The story itself is absolutely awe-inspiring, almost too fantastic to fathom. An unbelievable journey ... Read More
Rating: - I love this movie!
This is a wonderful movie.It certainly is not for the faint of heart and is not your light "fluffy" movie but it is an incredible journey through a life-altering experience with a very courageous man.
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- Climber
This documentary was very exciting and held your interest throughout most of the film. I did find myself continuing to wonder who was filming the journey, so one has to get that thought out of their mind and realize that it is a film. It slowed down a bit toward the end, when you knew - as unlikely as it was - that the missing climber was going to survive. All in all, very worthwhile, and definitely has my recommendation.
Rating: - WOW!!!!!!!
Touching The Void is a tense, gripping and one nerve shredding movie.
The film tells the ture story of two rock climbers, in a battle against the weather to make it to the top and for one of them a desperate bid to survive the climb down.
The film contains interviews with the two who climbed this mountain,and shows reinactments of there ordeal, some of the scenes in this film is well and truly jaw-dropping and it's sometimes hard to watch, especially the one who got left behind ... Read More
Rating: - 3.5 stars out of 4
The Bottom Line:
A harrowing and gripping documentary that plays likes a thriller, Touching the Void is a fascinating film that made me both understand the allure of mountain clumbing and never want to do it.
- Absolutely riveting - and much, much more than I expectedHaving a very small amount of climbing experience myself, I vividly remember hearing this story, and all of the criticism that poor Simon faced, back when this actually happened, but I only recently saw the movie - and I am oh so glad I did.
Even if you are not at all interested in climbing, this is simply one of the most riveting stories ever told and one of my favorite movies ever.The story itself is absolutely awe-inspiring, almost too fantastic to fathom. An unbelievable journey ... Read More
- I love this movie!This is a wonderful movie.It certainly is not for the faint of heart and is not your light "fluffy" movie but it is an incredible journey through a life-altering experience with a very courageous man.
- ClimberThis documentary was very exciting and held your interest throughout most of the film. I did find myself continuing to wonder who was filming the journey, so one has to get that thought out of their mind and realize that it is a film. It slowed down a bit toward the end, when you knew - as unlikely as it was - that the missing climber was going to survive. All in all, very worthwhile, and definitely has my recommendation.
- WOW!!!!!!!Touching The Void is a tense, gripping and one nerve shredding movie.
The film tells the ture story of two rock climbers, in a battle against the weather to make it to the top and for one of them a desperate bid to survive the climb down.
The film contains interviews with the two who climbed this mountain,and shows reinactments of there ordeal, some of the scenes in this film is well and truly jaw-dropping and it's sometimes hard to watch, especially the one who got left behind ... Read More
- 3.5 stars out of 4The Bottom Line:
A harrowing and gripping documentary that plays likes a thriller, Touching the Void is a fascinating film that made me both understand the allure of mountain clumbing and never want to do it.
